Job Description:

Instructs and guides professional and amateur athletes. Assesses physical condition and gives advice and assists with treatments for professional and amateur athletes to maintain maximum physical fitness for participation in athletic competition. Prescribes routine and corrective exercises to strengthen muscles. Recommends special diets to build up health and promote weight management for athletes. Massages parts of players' bodies to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises. Renders first aid to injured players, such as giving artificial respiration, cleaning and bandaging wounds, and applying heat and cold to promote healing. Calls physician for injured people as required. Wraps ankles, fingers, or wrists of athletes in synthetic skin, protecting gauze, and adhesive tape to support muscles and ligaments. Treats chronic minor injuries and related disabilities to maintain athletes' performance. May give heat and diathermy treatments as prescribed by health service. Workers are identified according to type of sport. May work in hospital or medical clinic under a doctor's guidance or supervision. Less

Instructs and guides professional and amateur athletes. Assesses physical condition and gives advice and assists with treatments for professional and amateur athletes to maintain maximum physical fitness for participation in athletic competition. Prescribes routine and corrective exercises to strengthen muscles.... More